On Friday, March 6, 2015, the Fordham Law Review hosted Fighting Corruption in America and Abroad, a full-day symposium that focused on defining corruption and initiatives to regulate it within the United States and internationally.
Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, delivered the keynote address. The symposium consisted of four panel discussions:
• What is Corruption, How Should We Define it, and Why is it Bad?
• Landmark Domestic Bribery Prosecutions
• Corruption Regulation in Practice via the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
• The Political Economy of Global Corruption Regulation
The panels featured legal academics, prosecutors, defense lawyers, economists, and political philosophers. Also participating were Fordham Law professors Thomas H Lee and Zephyr Teachout, who ran for New York governor on an anti-corruption platform and whose book Corruption in America was recently published by Harvard University Press.